D.C. Wire: September 5, 2010 - September 11, 2010

UPDATED 9/13, 11:55 A.M. On the last day of early voting in District neighborhoods, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's campaign accused supporters of D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray of attempting to lure voters to a polling site with supermarket gift cards. Last night, a Fenty supporter uploaded a video...

D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) said Saturday "a lot of people would be disappointed' if Mayor Adrian M. Fenty runs as a Republican in the General Election should he lose the Sept. 14 Democratic primary. Fenty, however, reiterated Saturday he would never run as a Republican, likely killing...

After more than two dozen candidates forums, three televised debates and numerous radio and television commercials, the Sept. 14 Democratic primary for mayor is coming down to a battle of the YouTube videos. In one video, "Fenty Must Go," a resident produces a scathing critique of the Fenty administration. The...

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has hired former White House communications director and veteran Democratic media consultant Anita Dunn to help him craft his message for the final push of his re-election campaign. Sean Madigan, a Fenty spokesman, said Fenty had retained Dunn's firm, Squier Knapp Dunn, within the past...

The District's campaign finance watchdogs Thursday initiated a formal investigation into the fundraising reports of Council member Kwame Brown (D-At Large).
Brown's campaign said it would cooperate with the investigation.

(Cross-posted from Mike DeBonis's blog) Good news and bad news for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in two new polls released Wednesday. The heartening news: Both show Vincent Gray with a narrower lead in the mayoral race than was shown in the Washington Post poll released 10 days ago. The deflating...

To the annoyance of advisers to Vincent C. Gray, D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) is emerging as a leading public face of the campaign in the finals days before the Sept. 14 Democratic primary.

Part 1: Part 2: D.C. Council member Marion Barry stumbled over his words while Peaceoholics co-founder Ronald Moten stumbled over his facts during a 15-minute debate Tuesday night on the Fox 5 10 p.m. newscast. Barry and Moten, both of whom have emerged as sideshows in the mayor's race, clashed...

Peaceoholics co-founder Ronald Moten, a strategist and friend of the mayor's, tells D.C. Wire he will debate D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) tonight at 10:30 p.m. on Fox 5 news about the mayor's race.

The editorial board of the Washington Examiner has endorsed Adrian M. Fenty's reelection, saying the city is "moving in the right direction" under his leadership. In the editorial, which will be published Tuesday but was released online Monday night, the Examiner said they favor Fenty over D.C. Council Chairman Vincent...

A few times, Gray got drawn into ten-minute plus conversations with potential voters. Gray's go-slow approach to canvassing is much different approach than Mayor Adrian M. Fenty takes when he hits the street.